With the midterm election around the corner, Campus Compact knows there are a lot of organizations out there in the Student Voting space. Who are the best partners for your campus? Who is working with faculty, staff, and students? How is a campus supposed to know who they should turn to for all their campus election engagement needs? The Students Learn Students Vote Coalition has all the answers! Check out this helpful infographic to learn more about some of the nonpartisan student democratic engagement organizations that may be helpful on your campus. Campus Compact is proud to be part of the SLSV Coalition and to work with dozens of great organizations across the country providing resources for campus election engagement. In addition to all the great resources available through SLSV, here are some great Campus Compact resources: On June 9th, we held a webinar with ALL IN Democracy Challenge on Community College Voter Registration. Find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4qL5KbWN4. The…

The final session of this year’s TRUCEN annual meeting featured report outs from the Sustained Conversation groups that had been meeting regularly throughout the winter and spring quarters.  Sustained Conversations provide an opportunity for TRUCEN members to virtually connect on a regular basis to “dive deeper” into key aspects of their civic and community engagement work, problem solve with others, and share experiences and resources to advance their programs and initiatives. Below is a brief summary of activities each group undertook over the past year:  Anti-racist Community Engaged Teaching and Learning  Co-Conveners: Deborah Keisch (UMass Amherst) & Jesús Hernández (Brown) This group of participants met virtually between November 2021 and April 2022 with the intention of “explor(ing) practices, pedagogies, and programming for anti-racist Community Engaged (CE) teaching and learning that counteract institutionalized and persistent racism on our campuses and in our community engagement.” Under the idea of “meeting to transgress,” the group committed to provide feedback on each other’s curricula…

TRUCEN Members Renew Ties, Focus on Equity This year’s gathering of The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) brought together representatives from over 20 TRUCEN member institutions to UMass Amherst and the Center at Springfield for shared learning and exchange around the meeting’s strategic focus areas: racial justice, youth engagement, and community-engaged research anchored in equity and community voice. The two-and-a-half day program permitted a welcome return to in-person, collegial networking among R-1 colleagues who interacted in locations both on- and off- the UMass Amherst campus.  Centering Community Voice A distinguishing feature of this year’s meeting was the intentional centering of the voices, labor, and essential contributions of predominantly BIPOC community partners in higher education community engagement programs. A particular session on “Cultivating Community Voice in our Engagement Work” allowed local community leaders to speak their truths as experts of engagement and to outline an agenda for change in higher education community engagement that not only accommodates community “voice” but…